Nicholas Gledhill

Gledhill was born in Sydney to parents Bobbie Gledhill and actor Arthur Dignam. He grew up in Glebe, New South Wales and attended St Andrew's Cathedral School. At the age of 19 he moved to England, to try out for drama school and attended Birmingham School of Speech and Drama from which he graduated in 1998.

He is possibly best known for one of his early roles, that of PS in Careful, He Might Hear You (1983), the story of a young boy in the middle of a custody battle between his two aunts based on the novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. Gledhill was nominated for a Best Actor award by the Australian Film Institute for this role in 1984.

Gledhill has worked mainly in film and television, and as a Stage Combat Master and choreographer, an acting teacher and is a prize-winning writer (ICI/STC Young Writers Competition).

Some of his stage roles include Edgar and Sebastian in the Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia's production of King Lear and The Tempest.^[1] He was featured in a Sunday Life article on child stars^[2] and performed various roles at the Edinburgh Festival, in a collection of 12 short plays called Light Bites and Tasty Treats.^[3]

In 2010 he played Demetrius, in the Acting Factory production of A Midsummer Night's Dream^[4], and in the same year played the role of Watch in the SpaceCraft Productions^[5] production of the official Sydney Fringe Festival^[6] selection, Closing Time.^[7][8]

Nicholas, along with PJ Collins,^[9] founded the Arts Party in October 2013 and registered by the Australian Electoral Commission in August 2014. Creation of the Party was inspired by the importance of the arts and of creative action.

Money for the party's registration was raised through a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo^[10] to gather the funds and the list of signed-up members required to register the party. Although the Party garnered a large amount of support at the time of its creation, it was voluntarily deregistered with the Australian Electoral Commission on 25 June 2019, but remains registered for local elections with the New South Wales Electoral Commission.

He lives in Sydney with his wife, Amelia, and their two children, Tigerlily and Wolfgang.